Dave Crossland
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarDave Crossland is a Staff (L6) UX Programmes & Operations lead for Google Fonts with 15 years of experience, based in Denver, Colorado. He blends program leadership with hands-on engineering, contributing front-end, back-end and documentation commits to prominent open-source projects such as FontForge, fonttools and FontBakery. With an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, he uniquely pairs typeface design expertise with software delivery to make libre fonts usable at scale. At Google he drives both the UX and operational workstreams that get fonts into production for millions of users. A long-standing advocate for free fonts, he previously founded a consultancy that bridged type design and libre tooling and continues to ship practical improvements across the font ecosystem.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (29)
git10
site-design10
fonts10
website-development10
python10
back-end-development10
css10
front-end-development10
fontforge10
jekyll10
html10
liquid10
website-design10
templating10
documentation10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
fontforge/designwithfontforge.com
Jan 2013 - Apr 2022
A book about how to design new typefaces with FontForge
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:295 commits, 27 PRs, 81 pushes in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily focused on front-end development, contributing to the design and structure of the website. They implemented the initial structure of the site using Jekyll templates, and included the basic layout of book pages with HTML, CSS and Liquid templating. They also added styling and breadcrumbs and incorporated links to relevant GitHub resources to improve user experience and facilitate contributions.
fontfontforgetypefacesnew-design
fonttools/fontbakery
Mar 2013 - Dec 2022
🧁 A font quality assurance tool for everyone
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 963 commits, 83 PRs in 9 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Dave's commits focus on implementing and modifying back-end functionality within the `fonttools/fontbakery` repository. The changes include merging branches, modifying Python files to implement features related to project management, including cloning and setting up projects. Other updates involve adding and removing items on settings pages, fixing bugs related to the same. These commits indicate a developer actively working on core functionality.
pythonfontvariable-fontspython-3opentype
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